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Mount Philo State Park
Mount Philo State Park in Charlotte, Vermont, established 1924 from Frances Humphreys' donation, is Vermont's first state park: a 968-foot summit with CCC-built road and lodge, Lake Champlain and Adirondack views, and a 10-site campground.
Mount Rainier
Mount Rainier, also called Tahoma by area tribes, is an active Cascade stratovolcano in Washington and the centerpiece of the fifth US national park (1899), the most heavily glaciated peak in the contiguous United States with 28 named glaciers and major lahar hazards.
Mount Rainier National Park
Mount Rainier National Park, established March 2, 1899, is Washington's fifth U.S. national park, centered on the 14,410-ft active stratovolcano Mount Rainier (Tahoma), the most glaciated peak in the contiguous United States with 26 major glaciers.
Mount Redoubt
Mount Redoubt (Redoubt Volcano) is a 10,197-ft active stratovolcano in Lake Clark National Park, 170 km southwest of Anchorage, Alaska. Its 1989-90 and 2009 eruptions disrupted Cook Inlet oil operations and Anchorage aviation, including a 1989 four-engine 747 failure.
Mount Scenery National Park
Mount Scenery National Park, Saba, Dutch Caribbean: protected area established 2018 covering 26% of the island around Mount Scenery, the 887 m highest point of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, managed by the Saba Conservation Foundation.
Mount Whitney
Mount Whitney, highest peak of the contiguous United States at 14,505 ft (4,421 m), a Sierra Nevada granite summit on the Sequoia National Park and Inyo National Forest boundary, named in 1864 and climbed via the permit-limited Mt. Whitney Trail from Whitney Portal.
Mudeung Florist
Mudeung Florist (무등식물원, Mudeungsingmulwon) is a garden and recreation area in Usan-dong, Gwangsan-gu, Gwangju, South Jeolla, South Korea, near Hwahwedanji, Gana Florist, and Gwangmyeong Florist.
Mudumalai National Park (முதுமலை தேசியப் பூங்கா)
Mudumalai National Park (முதுமலை தேசியப் பூங்கா), a 103.23 km² park in Tamil Nadu's Nilgiris, forms the core of Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (688.59 km², declared 2007) at the Kerala-Karnataka-Tamil Nadu tri-junction, linked to Bandipur, Wayanad and Mukurthi.
Mulpani Botanical Garden
Mulpani Botanical Garden (मूलपानी वनस्पति उद्यान), a 5.5-hectare national botanical garden at Kapurkot, Salyan, Karnali Province, Nepal, established 2056 BS at 1,420 m, conserving 547 documented plant species including 62 rare and threatened ones.
Mushthaidi Garden
Mushthaidi Garden (Mushtaid Garden, მუშთაიდის ბაღი) is a historic 1830s park in Tbilisi, Georgia, founded by the Persian mujtahid Mir-Fatah-Agha, home to the world's first children's railway (1935), the State Silk Museum, and Transcaucasia's first hot-air balloon ascent (1882).
Muskauer Park / Park Mużakowski
Muskauer Park / Park Mużakowski, also Fürst-Pückler-Park Bad Muskau, is a 559.9 ha transboundary landscape park on the Neisse between Germany and Poland, created 1815-1844 by Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau and UNESCO-listed in 2004.
My Old Kentucky Home State Park
My Old Kentucky Home State Park in Bardstown, Kentucky, preserves Federal Hill, the Rowan mansion tied to Stephen Foster's 1853 state song; features mansion tours, golf, the Stephen Foster Story, and a renovated 39-site campground.
MYUDa park
MYUDa park (Парк МЮДа) was a Kremenchuk, Ukraine public park established in 1938 near the DK Kredmash and railway station; it was completely destroyed in 2006 when developer Amstor-M felled 236 trees for the Eneida complex.
Mzoli's Park
Mzoli's Park is the informal name for the gathering space around Mzoli's Place, a butchery-restaurant in Gugulethu, Cape Town, founded by Edwin "Mzoli" Ngcawuzele and drawing up to 30,000 patrons on busy weekends.
Nā Pali Coast State Park
Nā Pali Coast State Park (Nāpali Coast State Wilderness Park) is a cliff-lined wilderness park on Kauaʻi's northwest shore, entered via Hāʻena State Park and the 11-mile Kalalau Trail, with camping permits required past Hanakāpīʻai and boat landings limited to Kalalau and Miloliʻi, May 15–September 7.
Nagarhole National Park (ನಾಗರಹೊಳೆ ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯ ಉದ್ಯಾನವನ)
Nagarhole National Park (Rajiv Gandhi National Park, ನಾಗರಹೊಳೆ) is a 643 km² tiger reserve in Karnataka's Western Ghats, part of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, adjoining Bandipur and Wayanad, with high tiger and elephant densities and heavy human–wildlife conflict.
Nahanni National Park Reserve
Nahanni National Park Reserve (Nahʔą Dehé), Northwest Territories, Canada: UNESCO World Heritage site since 1978, expanded 2009 to about 30,000 km2, home of the South Nahanni River, Virginia Falls, and Canada's largest tufa mounds.
Nairobi National Park
Nairobi National Park, Kenya's first national park (gazetted 1946, first in East Africa), a 117 km² savannah park 7–10 km from Nairobi's city center, fenced except on the open southern Mbagathi River boundary toward the Kitengela plains, home to black rhinos, lions, and 400+ bird species.
Nakatsumiya Square
Nakatsumiya Square (中津宮広場) is a public garden and viewing plaza beside the Nakatsumiya sanctuary of Enoshima Shrine on Enoshima island, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan; known for seasonal flowers, camellias and February cherry blossoms, harbor views, and as a Shonan no Hoseki illumination site.
Nanyao Yuan
南药园 (southern-drug gardens): medicinal-plant gardens of IMPLAD, chiefly the Xishuangbanna garden in Jinghong, Yunnan (founded 1959, ~20 ha, 1,200+ species) and the Xinglong garden in Wanning, Hainan (1960, 13+ ha), conserving tropical nan yao germplasm.
Nara Park (奈良公園)
Nara Park (奈良公園) is a 660-hectare public park in Nara, Japan, opened in 1880, famous for about 1,687 protected wild sika deer and World Heritage temples Tōdai-ji, Kōfuku-ji, and Kasuga Taisha.
National Botanic Garden of Wales
Botanic garden at Middleton Hall, Llanarthne, Carmarthenshire, Wales; opened 24 May 2000; 568 acres; over 5,000 plant taxa; home to the world's largest single-span glasshouse.
National Botanic Garden of Zimbabwe
The National Botanic Garden of Zimbabwe is a 68-hectare botanical garden in Alexandra Park, about 4 km north of Harare, holding roughly 90 percent of Zimbabwe's woody flora.
National Botanical Garden of Iran
National Botanical Garden of Iran (باغ گیاهشناسی ملی ایران), formerly Aryamehr Botanical Garden: 145-hectare botanical garden in northwest Tehran, largest in Iran, about 4,000 species, run by the Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands.
National Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences
China National Botanical Garden (国家植物园), Beijing's first national botanical garden, approved December 2021 and inaugurated April 2022, combining IBCAS South Garden and Beijing Botanical Garden North Garden across 300 open hectares with 18,000 plant species.
National Cycad Conservation Center
National Cycad Conservation Center (Center of National Cycad Germplasm Conservation, Cycad Garden), an ex situ cycad facility at Fairy Lake Botanical Garden, Shenzhen, China; established 18 December 2002, first nationally approved cycad conservation center, holding over 240 species in 10 genera across nearly 6 hectares.
National Kan Daw Gyee Botanical Garden
National Kan Daw Gyee Botanical Garden (National Kandawgyi Gardens, ကန်တော်ကြီး အမျိုးသား ရုက္ခဗေဒ ဥယျာဉ်), Myanmar's botanical garden at Pyin Oo Lwin, founded 1915, Kew-inspired, 177 hectares, ex-situ conservation of 38 threatened plant species.
National Mall
The National Mall is the monumental park in Washington, D.C., running from the U.S. Capitol to the Washington Monument and West Potomac Park. Shaped by the 1791 L'Enfant and 1902 McMillan Plans, it hosts museums, memorials, inaugurations, and protests, with turf managed by the National Park Service.
National monuments in the South Central states
The national monuments in the South Central states are National Park System monuments in six states, including Russell Cave, Poverty Point, Camp Nelson, and Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley.
National monuments of the Midwest (NPS)
The National monuments of the Midwest are three National Park Service sites protecting cultural resources: Effigy Mounds in Iowa, and Pipestone and Grand Portage in Minnesota.